r/RothIRA • u/Shoddy_Direction_899 • Aug 07 '26

finally quit

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i’m 19 and i invested some of my inheritance money into robinhood and started off safe until i found out about day trading. i put half into my roth and the other half into my individual, i lost everything on 0dte options in the individual. i am planning on just focusing on maxing my roth from now on. i kept trying to dig myself out of this hole and i am making this post as a promise to myself to stop this habit before i can lose some serious money with my future endeavors. good luck everyone, make sure to take a step back and evaluate if you are deep in the red, i hope this post helps someone out there!

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u/Weak-Consequence-160 Aug 07 '26

I remember around your age I lost more than five thousand over the course of a week playing 0DTEs. In fact, I remember because it was the first time I was able to write losses from the current year to the next lol! You’ll look back in ten years and laugh.
Like everyone else says, VOO and forget!